Comments on: Tucson Ghost Giraffe suggests picking a fight with Catalina Foothills residents

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:58:27 +0000

Pima County doesn’t provide me with much either. While my road is used by hundreds of foothills residents everyday, it is very deteriorated and quickly breaking down. I pay for private “fire protection” which is not tax deductible. I’m stuck with that terrible Comcast, which charges about 40% more than Cox for the same or lower quality service. I pay for a private trash service, and occasionally, they even pick it up.

For all the whining that my Foothills neighbors do about Tucson, I struggle to see how I am better off out in the county. I have a great home, great lot, great views, and great neighbors. However, none of these are attributable to being outside of the Tucson city limits.

Let’s stop subsidizing Maricopa county, annex into Tucson, and actually get some of our own tax dollars back into our community.

By: Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:32:50 +0000

I have lived in both the city and county. What service, except water, does the city provide to entice annexation besides mismanagement and increase taxes? With our mayor and council, I’ll take the county anytime.

By: Ronald Peterson

Ronald Peterson — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:26:03 +0000

Pima County and the City should merge. Eliminate dual governments. Also, state tax money paid to cities is higher per capita the larger the city, so without counting the Pima County residents, Tucson gets less, a lot less. The reason for the higher rebate is political (think Phoenix); statistics show that the cost of government is lower per capita in a larger city. You could look it up.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:02:20 +0000

Silly giraffe — paying the same water rates as city residents missed a big piece of the water scam. Water doesn’t run up hill even in Tucson, so pumps are needed to get that water up to the foothills. Guess who pays not only for the pumps, their maintence and the cost of energy to run the pumps so our uphill friends and neighbors can have city water? You do, you silly giraffe — you and all of us city dwellers. Fair would be just paying for the cost of delivery of the service rather than sticking to the zoo crowd. Liberal Democrates in city government tend to be liberal with the citizen’s money — not their best interest. Lots of luck in cleaning up those monkey cages.